My Article Has Been Plagiarized!

Today I found out that one of my original articles on HubPages has been plagiarized. It was copied word for word from start to finish (including the title, by the way) and republished on another person's blog as his own. It infuriates me to think that something I worked hard on was so easily stolen. I've been earning good money off that article for a year now, too. And now this person who copied my article is stealing a portion of my earnings! Argh!

So I guess that makes me an bona fide author now. Haha. It's the first time I've had to file an official DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) complaint with Google, Inc. I had to do it because the one who plagiarized my article didn't allow comments and didn't put any contact information on his site. There was no way for me to contact him directly and politely ask him to remove my article from his blog. He did however have many Google ads there so I hope Google bans him from Google Adsense for plagiarism and he can't make money off of other people's original copyrighted work. Hah! The kitten has claws!

In case you're curious, this is the article I'm talking about:
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